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Excerpt from Periodic Reports of the Agricultural Marketing Service: January 1961 The Agricultural Marketing Service, in cooperation with many of the State Depart ments of Agriculture, gathers and distributes market news on supply, demand, quality, prices and movement of agricultural products. Through a nationwide network of more than 170 field offices, trading is reported at major terminal markets, as well as in im portant production and shipping areas. For a quick exchange of information most of the market news offices are connected by more than 13, 000 miles of leased teletype lines. Market reports are issued on all major farm commodities, including cotton, cotton seed, dairy and poultry products, fruits and vegetables, grain and related products, feed molasses, livestock, meats, wool, tobacco, naval stores, honey, peanuts, and pecans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.